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Recommendation 3
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Enhance UK-EU cooperation against unfair trade practices, including forced labour and industrial subsidies.
Recommendation
The UK should work closely with the EU to strengthen coordinated action against non-market economies that undermine the international trading system through unfair practices, including use of forced labour, industrial subsidies, state-owned enterprise advantages, and forced technology transfers. Enhancing cooperation on trade defence instruments—such as anti-subsidy and anti-dumping measures—along with alignment of safeguards against use of forced labour in supply chains will help ensure a more effective and consistent response to market distortions that threaten fair competition. (Recommendation, Paragraph 15)
Government Response
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